Firefox 42 Now Is Available for Upgrade in Official Repository

November 5, 2015

Mozilla Firefox 42.0 was finally released one day ago. Now it’s available in Ubuntu official repositories for Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and their derivatives, e.g., Linux Mint 13/17, and Elementary OS Freya/Luna.

Firefox 42.0 features:

Private Browsing with Tracking Protection blocks certain Web elements that could be used to record your behavior across sites

Control Center that contains site security and privacy controls

Indicator added to tabs that play audio with one-click muting

WebRTC improvements:

IPV6 support

Preferences for controlling ICE candidate generation and IP exposure

Hooks for extensions to allow/deny createOffer/Answer

Improved ability for applications to monitor and control which devices are used in getUserMedia

Login Manager improvements:

Improved heuristics to save usernames and passwords

Edit and show all logins in line, Copy/Paste usernames/passwords from the Context menu

Migration imports your passwords to Firefox from Google Chrome for Windows and Internet Explorer; import anytime from the Login Manager

Improved performance on interactive websites that trigger a lot of restyles

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